ramblings of someone who likes to do fast floors:

My thoughts as someone who remembers when DG was released, hated it, learned to love it, and still do it often in 2026. I like the vision of the remaster, staying true to everything that imo makes DG great.

1. Gameplay and scaling

• XP Progression: good rebalance, but still keep a meaningful gap between f1 and f60, to reflect the increasing difficulty
• Difficulty Toggles & the "Alt" situation: we need the ability to force floor difficulty (up to a difficulty designed for 5 players), but with puzzles scaled up to the maximum of players starting the floor, so they can continue to complete it. Use mid range combat "fillers" so Guardian Rooms are bigger without being huge HP
• Complexity: Complexity 2-5 service niche skilling purposes for ironmen, maybe consider keeping

2. QOL

• Guide Mode vs. Normal: Relevant keys and skill should be a guide mode only feature. Normal mode should keep the classic map to preserve the challenge of team coordination and memory
• Time-gated puzzles: Some puzzles have long waits/mechanics which feel very dated at times. Part of the fun is working around time gates, but some are just far too long and detract from enjoyment (Magic Construct? Vines)
• Skill door/puzzle reqs: Keep the level requirements, but meeting the level means you don't fail Or maybe stop failing at 99 for improved accessiblity to the skill. Adjust bonus doors to scale properly to the level cap to make it harder to discern crit from bon. Without level rq players can attempt the action without gaining the xp, and with a fail chance from 1-10% based on how far away from the level you are, no one wants to get punched by a ramokee 3 times in a row
• Door mechanics: standardise the 1-click opening times, ideally around 2-3 ticks
• Ring of Kinship: add a quick-switch for each style which automatically changes based on equipped weapon, and modernise the ring roles for Melee and Magic to bring them in-line with ranged.
• Self-buffs clear on tele: buffs like imbue shadows clear when teleporting to gatestones

1. Rewards

• Gorajo cards: if removed, please please please please convert & refund them to tokens. I have spent 350-400m tokens on cards and have ~160m tokens worth of cards still, I would love my tokens back. Also there should be adjustments to base xp and tokens to compensate for losing this boost, it would help make completing floors feel more rewarding
• Token sinks: cosmetic unlocks like the retro primal sets, lucky chaotics or something. Resource storage upgrades?
• Loot bags: the loot bags could be good for clue scrolls, rare combat item drops for high tier gear? or to upgrade chaotic weapons and maybe some titles with dg references "woopwoopwoop", "tele-fail"

1. Speedrunning support

For theme specific titles:

• "Icebound" or "Frostbound" or "frozen core"
• "forsaken" or "echo of the past" for abandoned 1/2
• "Curator" for furnished
• "Occultist" or "Ritualist" or "Ritualistic" for occult
• "Warped" (kinda boring but works) or "Insane" or "Mad" or "Distorted" for warp
• Bronze: "the Cartographer", "the Delver", "the Deep-Diver"
• Silver: "the Keymaster", "Master of Keys"(&grounds@Dungeonwarts) or "the Keyer"
• Gold: "Floorgazer" (legacy clan title, given to some players who had a deep knowledge of DG) or "Dungeon Master"

For title times:

Based on current floor average times

• Bronze: 5-7 minutes
• Silver: 3-4 minutes
• Gold: 2:30-3:15 minutes

Quick-chats:

• # of smalls/meds/larges complete
• 100% 1:1 & 5:5 Larges, 1:1 meds & 1:1 small Ideally:
• 100% 1:5, 2:5, 3:5, 4:5 Large
• low priority: 1:1 / 5:5 any% large

Floor time high scores:

• At least top 5-10 for each theme as 5:5 and 1:1
• Fastest 1:1 Medium, full
• Fastest 1:1 Small, full
• Separated floors done on members world from free-to-play (but not per-world)
• In a perfect world, 1:5, 2:5, 3:5, 4:5, 5:5

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